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Aromatic Plants in Eurasian Blue Tit Nests: The ‘Nest [PDF]
, 2012 The ‘Nest Protection Hypothesis’ suggests that some birds add aromatic plants to their nests to repel or kill ectoparasites. This behavior has been described for several species, including the Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
Belo, A.D.F. +2 more
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Oil, Volatility, and Institutions
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Papers, 2017 This chapter examines the long-run effects of oil revenue and its volatility on economic growth, as well as the role of institutions in this relationship. We collect annual and monthly data on 17 major oil producers between 1961 and 2013, and use the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach as well as its cross-sectionally augmented version
El-Anshasy, A. +2 more
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Recent Advances on Thermochromic Inks for Security Applications
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Thermochromic security inks have garnered interest in recent years as security elements for authentication, information encryption, and anti‐counterfeiting. This review outlines different types of thermochromic materials, how they have been developed as functional inks, and how advancements in property enhancement, sustainability, and printing ...
Duarte B. Oliveira +5 more
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Antibacterial Effect of Fixed and Volatile Oils against Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria
Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research, 2019 Antibiotic resistance phenomena among pathogenic bacteria considered as a major health problem ?and associated with increased mortality or long-term hospitalization, which lead to open a new era by using ?plant and herbal extracts as an alternative ...
Tara Faiq M. Salih +3 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review explores recent advances in digital micromirror device (DMD)‐based lithography, focusing on its programmable light modulation, multi‐material compatibility, and dimensional patterning strategies. It highlights innovations from optical system design to materials integration and multifunctional applications, positioning DMD lithography as a ...
Yubin Lee +5 more
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Apparatus automatically measures soluble residue content of volatile solvents [PDF]
, 1969 Solvent Purity Meter /SPM/ automatically measures the soluble residue in volatile solvents used in cleaning or extraction of oils, greases, and other nonvolatile materials.
Oswalt, F. W.
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Using two‐photon polymerization of SU‐8 together with mold processing allowed the creation of defect‐free, flexible 3D microfluidic structures with sub‐micrometer precision in CYTOP. The fabricated CYTOP microfluidic chips enabled super‐resolution imaging of cancer cells in the microchannels, clearly visualizing previously undetectable fine structural ...
Koji Sugioka +16 more
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, 2017 In the Northeast, hop harvest generally begins in mid-August and continues through mid-September. Harvest date is primarily dependent on the hop variety but weather can delay or hasten maturation and impact when harvest will occur. In addition to weather,
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Antioxidant activity of thyme waste extract in O/W emulsions [PDF]
, 2019 Thymus vulgaris (thyme) is an aromatic plant and its essential oil has been applied as antimicrobial and antioxidant due to the presence of phenolic compounds.
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IMF Working Papers, 1996 This paper examines the behavior of crude oil prices since 1980, and in particular the volatility of these prices. The empirical analysis covers “spot” prices for one of the key internationally traded crudes, namely Dated Brent Blend. A GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic) model, which allows the conditional variance to be ...
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